Hi Stampers! Hope you are having a good week and that school is going well for those of you with kids in the house! My son started high school in person yesterday and my daughter started her remote learning with her middle school yesterday as well. Very different scenarios for them so its a little confusing but we are making it work! What else can we do?! Now I am taking a break from the school craziness to share my latest card.
It is a birthday card for a sweet friend using the Jar of Flowers stamp set. I enjoyed making this one because coloring the flowers was very relaxing; just what I needed this week. I got to use my new In Color Stampin Blends to color these flowers!! I love using the Stampin Blends, they are so easy to color with. The design is inspired from Amy Koender's Inkin Krew Thursdays Blog Hop on 9/3/20. You can see that here. I really liked the sketch so I decided to give it a try! Here is her sketch:
I started with a base card of Thick Whisper White cardstock. For right side panel, I used Flowers for Every Season DSP and a strip of Misty Moonlight cardstock cut out with the Ornate Borders Die. On top of that I used Whisper White Cardstock for the large left panel. I stamped the jar image with Misty Moonlight ink, then the stems with Just Jade ink. I stamped the Just Jade on my grid paper first then on the white cardstock so that it would a ligher shade of Just Jade. Then I stamped the flowers with Bumbleebee ink. These stamps are photopolymer (clear) which really helps with aligning them together. I used the darker shade of each Stampin Blend color to trace the outlines of the flowers and leaves and then used the lighter shade to fill it in (Just Jade, Misty Moonlight, and Magenta Madness). For the yellow flowers, I used Bumblebee Stampin Write Marker for the outline and Daffodil Delight Stampin Write Marker for the inside. Here is a close up of the coloring:
For the sentiment, I first cut Misty Moonlight cardstock with the second smallest rectangle of the Stitched So Sweetly Dies. Then I cut Whisper White to fit inside the stitched lines. I used the "Happy Birthday" stamp from the Here's A Card Stamp Set with Magenta Madness ink. I adhered the sentiment with Stampin Dimensionals to allow it to pop up above the jar. The bow is made with the blue and white twine from the Floweres for Every Season Ribbon Combo Pack. This twine has a touch of silver in it, its so pretty! The final step was to add 3 little green pieces from the Flowers for Every Season Gems. I adhered the ribbon and gems with mini glue dots.
For the inside, I kept it simple with just a strip of the same designer paper at the bottom of the card.
It was fun trying to create a card from a design. I like how it challenges me to think differently. I usually want to center everything just so!
Hope everyone has a great week! Keep hanging in there through whatever craziness you may going through and try to find some time to color or make a card; the creative time helps so much!
If you have any questions, please be sure to comment or email me!
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Thank you for reading my blog! Please contact me at bloxiegirl@yahoo.com with any questions, I would be delighted to help you with your stampin adventure!
Nicole
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